4. Avoiding Financial Crisis
Two traders credited for $4 billion profit
“Betting” on collapse
Shorting mortgage related securities
Actions were called into question
5. Secret Sauce
The people
Mergers and acquisitions
Proprietary trading/risk assessment technology
6. Story
Sergey Aleynikov
Arrested in 2009 for espionage
and theft-of-trade-secrets
charges
Charges dropped in 2011
Re-arrested in 2012
Acquitted of charges in 2015
7. Interesting Facts
1 million computing hours per day for risk
management calculations
Lower acceptance rate than Harvard in 2010, 2011
Sidney Weinberg, janitor’s assistant to CEO
Investment banking firm
Engages in global investment banking, investment management, securities, and other financial services for clients
Services:
Main product are financial services such as M & A, asset management, risk management
Mainly for large business clients/companies
Sales and trading:
Give clients multiple ways to track and execute transactions securely across exchanges
Internal Software:
In-house applications and technology to help their financial services
Huge company
One of the largest banks in the world
Offices in NY, NJ, Dallas, Salt Lake, London, Hong Kong, etc
During crisis - "betting" on a collapse in the sub-prime market, and shorting mortgage-related securities
actions were later called into questions because of the assets they let loose during the crisis
Quit company in 08/09 to work for a competing company
Arrested for stealing prop trading code and selling it to new company
Charges dropped in 2011 after court ruled source code was not a "stolen good" within the meaning of the NSPA
Rearrested in 2012 for two different charges
Finally acquitted in 2015
in 2010 and 2011, Goldman received 300,000 applications for full-time positions. 4% were given offers, and 9/10 accepted
Sidney Weinberg, who started off as a janitor’s assistant, went on to become the CEO and led the firm for 39 years.